We are back live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. We are tracking hurricane hilary. The system just weakened to a category 2 storm with winds of 110 miles per hour. The historic and potentially catastrophic storm is barrelling toward the southwestern United States, triggering the first ever Tropical Storm warning for millions of people in Southern California. The San Bernardino county Sheriffs Department just issued an Evacuation Warning for some areas in that part of Southern California. Thats just east of los angeles in the mountain and foothill areas. Hilary could bring a years worth of rain in a single day to parts of california, arizona, and nevada. Lets go straight to the cnn weather center, Meteorologist Derek Van Dam has been following the hurricanes path. I suppose its good news that the hurricane is weakening at some point, but that doesnt necessarily mean that people in that part of the country can let down their guards or folks in mexico as well. We should
Would then have to go to the president to decide to avert a shutdown before midnight tonight. Within the last hour, we heard from the Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer. I have very good news for the country democrats and republicans have come to an agreement and the government will remain open. We will have avoided a shutdown. Bipartisanship, which has been the trademark of the senate, has prevailed and the American People can breathe a sigh of relief. But this is a bridge cr and Leader Mcconnell and i have agreed to continue fighting for more economic and security aid for ukraine. We support ukraines efforts to defend its sovereignty against putins aggression. So, thank you. Thank you to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for their excellent work. The bipartisanship here in the senate set the tone for todays result and i hope it sets the tone for the future. The Top Republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell, offered this commitment. Most Senate Republicans remain committed to
Been speaking for a few minutes. We will hear more on what he says later. If no deal is in place by the end of today, Government Agencies will begin shutting down injust under ten hours time thats midnight local time. It would mean hundreds of thousands of federal employees sent home without pay. Much of the attention is focused on the republican speaker Kevin Mccarthy. Heres what he had to say earlier. Because the senate cannot act in time, the government would shut down. The house is going to act so government will not shut down. We will put a clean funding stop gap on the floor to keep government open for 45 days for the house and senate to get their work done. The house is debating over the Funding Plans now. And Hakeem Jefferies, democratic Minority Leaders has been speaking in the last few minutes. We are here at this moment on the brink of a shutdown that was entirely unavoidable and has been brought to us by the extreme Maga Republicans who have decided that rather than pursue
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Of thousands of federal employees are sent home without pay. We can speak now to our north america correspondent, sean dilley, who has the latest. From what ive just read, things have moved on somewhat. The house has voted for this stopgap bill, its still to go to the senate and its still to go to the senate and its not really the main event, isnt it . , its not really the main event, isnt it . 3 , its not really the main event, isnt it . , ,. , isnt it . Its pretty nailbiting stuff here isnt it . Its pretty nailbiting stuff here in isnt it . Its pretty nailbiting stuff here in washington, isnt it . Its pretty nailbiting| stuff here in washington, dc, isnt it . Its pretty nailbiting stuff here in washington, dc, its right out of the pages of a netflix house of cards episode. 90 against, this is really, really interesting because it doesnt include any new funding for ukraine. It does continue with other aid funding and the notion that it will keep the government running until the midd